Notices by Harish Pillay (harishpillay@floss.social)

@Fragglemuppet thank you very much. Hope you are a member and can vote.

Running for a seat at the Open Source Initiative

I have been accepted as a candidate to be elected to the Board of the Open Source Initiative under the Individual Members category. If you are a member of the Open Source Initiative, I would be delighted if you would cast your vote in my favour. Why am I running? As noted on my candidate page, I think it is important that I step up and help drive this globally significant organisation because of what open source implied…

http://harishpillay.com/2025/03/04/running-for-a-seat-at-the-open-source-initiative/

It is all about the CPU!

We need to revisit the disparate CPUs, NPUs, GPUs, TPUs that we see today. The answer, I will posit, is to get RISC-V RVA23 to become the baseline from edge to the centre and out to space.

http://harishpillay.com/2025/01/04/it-is-all-about-the-cpu/

@evan Perhaps this is useful: https://newrepublic.com/post/188197/trump-media-information-landscape-fox

Seeking all those interested in open source software tools to test whether AI solutions are fair, unbiased, transparent etc. Please consider joining the Matrix Space setup by the AI Verify Foundation (aiverifyfoundation.sg) - https://matrix.to/#/#ai-verify-foundation:matrix.org

Yes, I'm involved in AVF and look forward to global participation in this important aspect of the emerging ecosystem.

#foss #aiverify #Matrix

@nitin Hmm. I did not think of it that way because I knew that present day Bangladesh was also known as East Bengal and later as East Pakistan, so, yes, it is a misnomer to continue with West Bengal and adds confusion.

@nitin while I wholeheartedly agree at the redundancy, we have to somewhat tolerate the silliness. Consider East Timor. Timor means east in Malay/Indonesian. Yet it is Easy Timor. Does not help that they changed it to Timor Leste which is "east east". Oh well.

Today's rain is causing a lot of mist to form around Bt Timah Hill.

@nitin the scarcity mindset is actually powerful. it brings forth a discipline that you would not have needed/tried/attempted. Abundance reminds me of the Law of Large Numbers which has utility simply because of the size/abundance.

@nitin true. abundance does not extract preciseness in thinking. when one works within serious constraints, the innovation that happens is what makes it all worthwhile.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasas-voyager-1-is-glitching-sending-nonsense-from-interstellar-space-180983448/ This spacecraft was launched when I was in Pre University 2 in Raffles Institution. It is a testimony to the engineering (frugal and with deliberate redundancy) that both Voyager spacecrafts are sending back data and now from outside the heliosphere. Did not realise that the Voyager's computers have only 70 kb of RAM!!!!

@evan that's a good timeline. I've been using email/smtp to explain activitypub and notion of decentralized. Decentralized was how the Internet started and has to continue to be. It should be all about protocols not platforms.